AP Literature chapter 1 Flashcards

7488938495	ambiguous	unclear	0
7488939193	scrupulous	thorough and careful	1
7488939857	adorn	to decorate	2
7488940823	camaraderie	goodwill among friends	3
7488941764	specious	seemingly true but actually logically false	4
7488944749	refute	to prove to be false	5
7488946152	deleterious	harmful	6
7488947226	heed	to pay close attention to	7
7488949567	orthodox	commonly accepted; flowerly	8
7488951248	construe	to interpret	9
7488955465	elated	filled with delight	10
7488957131	scorn	intense hatred or disrespect	11
7488958658	temper	to soften or moderate	12
7488966076	florid	elaborately or successfully ornamenated; flowery	13
7488970224	garrulous	talkative	14
7488970841	thwart	to stop or prevent	15
7488971908	appease	to bring peace; quiet, or calm to	16
7488977906	encompass	to include; contain	17
7488979256	carnivorous	meat-eater	18
7488980102	advocate	to speak in favor of; promote	19
7490156559	caesura	a strong pause within line of verse	20
7495365540	canto	major division of an epic poem	21
7495372698	tonal shift	tone may shift throughout a work as the narrators perspective changes, or as the plot becomes more complex, dramatic, bizarre, etc. there also may be more than one tone that an author takes toward a work at the same time. for example, a novel can be both humorous and dark, or both sentimental and formal	22
7495403871	hamartia	tragic flow; a detect in the character of the protagonist of a tragedy that brings about his/her downfall	23
7495415152	elegy	a lyric poem that laments the dead	24
7495419719	epithet	a term used to point out a characteristic of a person	25
7495433588	kennings	where the author would use a twist of words, figures of speech, or compound phrase to characterize a noun	26
7495445067	eulogy	a formal speech praising a person who has died	27
7495449133	epitah	an inscription on a tombstone or burial place	28
7495455025	anagnorsis	in greek drama, a starting discover; moment of epiphany; time of revelation when a character discovers his true identity	29
7495472485	tradegy	a type of drama in which the characters experience reversals of fortune, usually for the worse	30
7495483347	tragic hero	a privileged, exalted character of high repute, who, by virture of a tragic fall and fate, suffers a fall from glory into suffering	31
7495501621	archetype	original model or models for persons appearing later in history or characters appearing later in literature	32